exporting files 2

[billbones webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I export some image cast members to the hard drive of the users maching using SharpImage extra. It does it automatically with no windows explorer to choose a location of the files. These are specified in the command.

Is there a way of finding out what the main drives are on the users machine.

or

Is there a way that I could use something to open the windows explorer and get the user to locate a directory they want to use to store the exported image files (perhaps they could actually save something else like a blank text file????). Once they have located the directory I would need to return the absolute path to that location to use in the command to save the images.

Any help thanks in advance. I'm on a deadline with this one so any help is very welcome. Thanks Bill Glance.

[johnAq webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

You can use one of several xtras to display a file save dialog box

The most common ones are fileio, MUI (included in Director), fileXtra (free, third party) and Buddy API (2 functions free)

These all call up a standard system dialog for the user to select a location & filename path for you to use with your export code

hth


johnAq


----fileIO example code

on saveFile
myFileio = new(xtra "fileio")
saveFileName = myFileio.displaySave("Save File", "untitled")
if saveFileName = "" then
alert "No file name selected"
else
--save file code here
end if
end

[billbones webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks for that...worked first time.

For anyone else who comes accross the problem heres the full code.

It saves a jpg or other bitmap file to disc using SharpExport Xtra but instead of saving automaticaly to disc where you specify in the hard code it opens a standard windows explorer window and lets the usr choose the location. The benefits of doing it this way are that it is free.

on Save_image_to_disc
myFileio = new(xtra "fileio")
saveFileName = myFileio.displaySave("Save File", "file_name")
tcn = saveFileName.char.count
saveFileName = saveFileName.char[1..(tcn - 4)] --taking off the .txt suffix whcih it will automatically add????!!!!!!
if saveFileName = "" then
alert "No file name selected"
else
xtraInst = new (xtra "SharpExport") -- Creating an Xtra instance:
result = xtraInst.exportJPG (member "Image_member", saveFileName & "_image.jpg", 70) end if
end